Margaret Oliphant Quote

Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.


A House in Bloomsbury (1894)


Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy.... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.